Securing court orders for psychiatric treatment of a patient committed to a psychiatric facility

Psychiatric Advanced Health Care Directives

Psychiatric advance directives can be used to plan for the possibility that someone may lose capacity to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute episodes of psychiatric illness.

Wyoming law allows individuals to appoint an agent to make decisions about their mental health treatment if they become incompetent to make decisions; to write instructions about how they would like their mental health care to proceed; or both.